[tex-live] Misc. questions

[Victor Ivrii]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On Mo, 12 Okt 2009, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
>>   Installing [4/6, time/total: 00:23/01:10]: tlperl.win32 [2925k]
>
>> I couldn't figure out what this time mean until I looked it in the
>> source. Wow, that's remaining time, not elapsed time! IMHO it's better
>> to show elapsed time though it's a matter of taste I guess. If
>
>
> On So, 11 Okt 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
>> I more or less agree with you.  We'll try to improve this post-release.
>
>
> That is fixed now with new tlmgr (from tomorrow on only availabe
> as usual in tlcritical until we ship it).
>
> The format is now
>        [n/N, time/total: tt/TT]
> where
>        n ... current number of package being installed/upgraded (increasing)
>        N ... total number of packages to be installed
>        tt .. time elapsed since start of installation/upgrades
>        TT .. estimated total time for all installation/upgrades
>
> I hope that is more intuitive now.


Some cosmetic changes would be IMHO welcome: if the large package is
downloaded it would be nice to have progressive .... "bar" (like in
wget)

Victor

>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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